April 2008 Entries

Changing the language of an existing SharePoint site

Recently we had a problem with a (pretty large) site. The problem was that the site was created in English, while it should have been created in Dutch.  All content was in Dutch of course, but for instance the Site Actions button still said Site Actions, and when adding a document the buttons were "New", "Upload" and "Actions". In order to solve this a couple of possible solutions were explored: Saving the site as template didn't work, because you can only see the saved site when you create a site in the original language of the site ...

I'm tagged for the blogging Meme

Bart Wessels was probably curious about whether I have a life next to SharePoint development, when he tagged me for Blogging Meme. It's a funny concept that let's bloggers share random stuff about themselves that you would otherwise never know about. Although the original post said you need to come up with eight facts and eight other bloggers, I agree with Bart that five will do. These are the  'Meme rules': Each player starts with five random facts/habits about themselves. People who are tagged need to write...